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From New Year’s Day to season’s end, Virginia Tech’s basketball team went 1-17. During one particularly grim stretch, the Hokies lost four consecutive games by at least 20 points, each to an unranked opponent. A third straight last-place ACC finish was a given and cost coach James Johnson his job. Bringing hope to such depths is difficult, but new big whistle Buzz Williams, only a month on the job, has managed. How that glimmer translates to next season’s record is anyone’s guess — not surprisingly, the history is mixed for ACC coaches who succeeded fired predecessors. But through force of resume and recruiting, Williams, who guided Marquette...

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From New Year’s Day to season’s end, Virginia Tech’s basketball team went 1-17. During one particularly grim stretch, the Hokies lost four consecutive games by at least 20 points, each to an unranked opponent. A third straight last-place ACC finish was...

BLACKSBURG — Virginia Tech's men's basketball program knew it wasn't going to get guard Donte Clark in the fold this season, but now it's also going to have to do without fellow freshman guard Malik Mueller.
Mueller, a 6-foot-3 native of Ehringen,...

Erick Green was not a prototype point guard at Virginia Tech. Surrounded by young, marginal talent, he had to create offense first for himself and then others.
But at 6-foot-3, Green is small by NBA shooting guard specs, which prompted questions about...

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Virginia guard Malcolm Brogdon couldn’t ask for a more ardent advocate than Miami coach Jim Larranaga, who voted Brogdon not only the ACC player of the year but also the conference’s top defender.
Brogdon did not receive either award,...

Virginia Tech’s Erick Green was part of a trade-crazed NBA draft Thursday night and landed with the Denver Nuggets.
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The early NBA exits and staggering coaching turnover have marinated. The rosters are close to set, and the summer recruiting circuit will commence next month.
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Basketball recruiting services such as Rivals, CBS and ESPN each rank six ACC classes among the nation’s elite, more than any other conference. With the leading seven vote-getters on last season’s all-league teams headed to the NBA, the ACC needs that...

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Virginia men's basketball coach Tony Bennett and his staff have traveled to the West Coast to pick up another commitment from a top-notch prospect, adding James Johnson to an already impressive 2010 recruiting class.
Johnson, a 6-foot-9, 220-pound...

ACC
Power poll
(records entering Thursday night)
1. North Carolina (24-2, 10-2): Center Tyler Zeller played Wednesday for the first time since Nov. 18, when he fractured his left wrist.
2. Clemson (21-4, 7-4): The Tigers have won six ACC games by...

Perennial and pointless. Intriguing and infuriating. Comical and confusing.So goes this college basketball season's jousting over conference supremacy.ACC or Big East? Carolina or Connecticut? Hansbrough or Harangody?We stage this debate each winter. Some...

Two years ago, the ACC placed seven teams in the NCAA men's basketball tournament for the first time. The record haul proved fool's gold.Seven league teams made the field again this season. But can they avoid repeating the wreckage of '07, when for the...

MIAMI -- Some 23 years later, Cleveland State still has a knack for first-round shockers in the NCAA tournament.
The Vikings raced to an early 17-point lead Friday night and stunned one-time top-ranked Wake Forest 84-69. The win was reminiscent of...